Uruguay

November 27, 2024
Debbie Sharnak

A former teacher and provincial mayor won a close runoff vote in Uruguay, signaling a return to the social welfare politics of the center-left Frente Amplio coalition.

August 29, 2024
Grace Livingstone

Uruguay was the first country in the world to enshrine water as a human right. Today an extractivist model threatens water sustainability and sovereignty.

August 19, 2024
Florencia Pagola, Carolina Bas Lemos, Madeleine Wattenbarger, Eliana Gilet

From Mexico City to Montevideo, women are leading the fight to protect their communities’ water from extractive projects. 

April 2, 2024
Magdalena Broquetas and Gerardo Caetano

A new radical right with links to the dictatorship has made unprecedented gains. So far, the country’s strong democracy has tempered its worst impacts.

April 2, 2024
Magdalena Broquetas y Gerardo Caetano

Una nueva derecha radical vinculada con la dictadura ha logrado avances electorales inéditos. Hasta ahora, una institucionalidad y democracia solída ha atenuado sus peores impactos.

June 26, 2023
Debbie Sharnak and Gabriela Fried Amilivia

On June 27, 1973, a coup plunged Uruguay into dictatorship. Decades later, human rights movements continue to demand justice for the crimes committed under the reign of state terror.

June 23, 2023
Jennifer Adair

Debbie Sharnak’s book traces the shifting meanings of human rights in Uruguay’s descent into authoritarianism and continued struggle for justice and accountability.

August 10, 2020
Stuart Schrader

The 1970 murder of a U.S. police advisor in Uruguay offers lessons for police reform debates today.

October 26, 2018
Greg Grandin

By 1979, much of the southern cone had fallen to right-wing military dictatorships in an era defined by militarist anti-communism, the defeat of the working class movement, and the emergence of neoliberalism. From our 50th anniversary issue, available open access for a limited time.

September 2, 2014
Debbie Sharnak

It has been a year since Uruguay passed an affirmative action law to help repair its historical racism. But where do Afro-Uruguayans stand today?

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